Update.exe doesn't create start menu shortcuts when passing in process-start-args

Question

I'm using electron-squirrel-startup to create start menu shortcuts but I need to pass in arguments to the shortcut, right now I'm editing the index.js in node_modules/electron-squirrel-startup like this:

run(['--createShortcut=' + target + ' --process-start-args=showSplash'], app.quit);

Although it doesn't create the shortcut anymore.

How can I create the start menu shortcut with arguments?

Answer 1

For some reason the child_process spawn didn't run the command so I swapped it out for exec like this:

exec(updateExe + ' ' + args[0], function (err, stdout, stderr) {
    done();
});

But I needed to put double quotes around the target as well because it has two words:

run(['--createShortcut="' + target + '" --process-start-args=showSplash'], app.quit);